Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· 4d

Industrial toxic mud from the Muruntau Gold Mine - Uzbekistan 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/V1Ge9ZhNdFp5... 4K link : i.imgur.com/gUCFdh7.jpeg

A satellite view of some abstract textures caused by deposits and resembling marble patterns in grey, white, blue and a touch of red.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· 11d

Fields and landscapes between Fresno and Bakersfield - California - USA 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/LWS7DCXF4dia... 4K link : imgur.com/a/BfY7X0V

A satellite picture of a small city surrounded by grids of fields and orchards all neatly aligned

A satellite picture of details of some fields displaying a variety of colors and gradients resembling an abstract painting

A satellite picture of a dense grid of fields, ponds and a few urban areas, all tightly packed and aligned with each other

A satellite picture of the grid of fields being broken by a river, disrupting the orthogonal lines. A diagonal road is crossing the image in the opposite direction

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· 20d

Austria 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/9MxHzWVpS6wL... 4K link : i.imgur.com/nmU6tC8.jpeg

A satellite picture of a rural landscape made of many small geometric (mostly rectangles and rectangle adjacent shaped) fields arranged in a chaotic way. The fields are yellow, green and brown and grey. A few villages are dotting the landscape.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· 23d

Talchako river - British Columbia - Canada 🌎 :https://maps.app.goo.gl/wVPbbiocctJJAcg79 4K link : imgur.com/a/UJd0Zen

A satellite picture of a light blue river stream meandering through a dense forest in a valley. The left side of the valley is a dense forest with ridges caused by elevation. The Right side is a fletter forest that rapidly transforms in a rocky grey side of a mountain.

A satellite picture of a light blue river stream meandering through a dense forest, taken from closer up on a small island covered by yellow, orange and green trees.

A satellite picture of a light blue river stream meandering through a dense forest with small islands visible.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· 27d

Pico do Fogo - Capo Verde 🌍 :https://maps.app.goo.gl/Er9uDJCT6swSpnKr7 4K link : i.imgur.com/7eusrnY.jpeg Today marks the 10th year of this project ! I started this blog on Tumblr in 2016 as a way to share this interest of mine and keep myself busy during a period of unemployment. 1/3

A satellite picture of a volcano in yellow and grey tones. It seems to be devoid of any vegetation.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jul 11

Orly Airport - Paris - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/tyyy4B9kGFe8... 4K link : i.imgur.com/J155rik.jpeg

A satellite picture of the internal transit section of an airport showing lots of interweaving roads, roundabouts and parking spaces.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jun 27

Terraced fields - Malta 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/aJdGQn6TZHfq... 4K link : i.imgur.com/aIwuPCd.jpeg

A satellite picture of a rural landscape showing a few hills and their terraced fields all around, forming abstract and semi circular shapes.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jun 21

Mining operation near Nehbandan - Iran 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/M4iTksdmJ9UV... 4K link : i.imgur.com/SCiBuwH.jpeg

A satellite picture of a mining operation comprised of a few blue rooved hangars and some conveyor belts. The landscape is split in two halves : on the left it is mainly dark grey and colorless. On the right, it is very colorful (mainly yellow but also blue and red colors), due to a mineral-rich soil.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jun 19

Les salins d'Aigues Mortes - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/AQ2fFFB3srZj... 4k link : imgur.com/a/kz2sHfv

A satellite picture of some salt marshes separated by light grey lines, the water appears brown on some and blue on some others

A satellite picture of some salt marshes separated by light grey lines, some of them are pink and some of them are grey and empty

A satellite picture of some salt marshes separated by light grey lines, all are some different shades of pink and orange

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jun 12

Saudi Arabia 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/bx7UmdEC93qR... 4K link : i.imgur.com/uNnREP2.jpeg

$A satellite picture of a desertic and rocky landscape through which a dried up river left an orange fractal-like path$

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· May 24

El Alto / La Paz - Bolivia 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/aAFziPM6Z8qU... 4K link : i.imgur.com/xtAsm3O.jpeg

A satellite picture of a very regular and repeating hexagonal-shaped suburban neighbourhood. The roads and streets are not paved so the lines they make are yellowish. The bottom left corner of the picture is unbuilt fields and dirt roads.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· May 14

Republic of the Niger 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/uswTuwCqYVG6... 4K link : i.imgur.com/DwuoClF.jpeg

A satellite picture of a very colorful landscape with gradients going from deep red to purple to orange to yellow cause by the different geological strates being exposed due to elevation change and erosion. Fractal-like tendrils of rivers are carved into the landscape.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· May 10

Siheung industrial zone - South Korea 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/rDqy3jZSq55V... 4K link : imgur.com/a/K8XWNei

A satellite picture of a large industrial zone comprised of many hangars and buildings with different shades of blue rooves, and a few white or orange ones. The entire zone is divided by a grid layout of roads.

same place but zoomed in so fewer blocks are visible

same place but zoomed in so even fewer blocks are visible

same place but zoomed at a level where we see only a few streets crossing in the middle of some blocks

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· May 8

Kaiminani - Hawaii - USA 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/RoAxA2TW6PD2... 4K link : i.imgur.com/5Twej7U.jpeg

A satellite view of a small industrial complex right next to a shoreline (left). Near the blue water and jagged edges of the rocky coast are small buildings, salt ponds and mariculture installations, across a dark volcanic soil.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Apr 30

Disneyland Paris and Marne La Vallée TGV station - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/KgnKE2Pi2aLH... 4K link : i.imgur.com/hb280Rv.jpeg

A satellite picture of a semi rural landscape with fields and urban zones inside a circular road. Inside the circle is a Disney resort and a train station along a railroad that's splitting the circle in half.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Apr 24

Tianjin - China 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/NnE9LjdzGBL2... 4K link : i.imgur.com/tgEfqu2.jpeg

A satellite picture of a very artificialized landscape comprised of solar panel fields, roads and a large diagonal of agricultural installations, all between geometric artificial ponds.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Apr 22

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A mosaic of satellite pictures spelling : LOWORBITTOURIST

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Apr 19

Sudan 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/H1Bq8DKk2XN2... 4K link : i.imgur.com/ARanefq.jpeg

A satellite picture of a desertic landscape showing orange sand interweaving with dark rocky terrain.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Apr 2

Istanbul Airport - Turkiye 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/k2A6XCJfqTf6... 4K link : imgur.com/a/SQlm8Uq

A satellite picture of a large airport terminal with multiple concourses extending outward, several airplanes parked at gates, and surrounding runways and taxiways.

A satellite picture of an airport runway and taxiway system with two airplanes on the taxiways, marked lines and signs, and areas of exposed soil between the paved sections.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Mar 22

Ethiopia 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/GkuqvedHJsRc... 4K link : i.imgur.com/YCVzb2v.jpeg

A satellite picture of a dense farmland area forming a patchwork of small green and brown fields. The landscape is split in two by a meandering river going from left to right.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Mar 16

Iran 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/Ea3zno7bH7th... 4K link : i.imgur.com/A3xJJfh.jpeg

A satellite picture of a desertic landscape with black sand, small dunes and an ovoid shape in the middle.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Mar 13

Fields near Lubbock - Texas - USA 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/qGqmwzscTvkp... 4K link : imgur.com/a/TxgSa2H

A satellite of a rural area divided in squares containing circle fields of varying sizes as well as roads and more square fields, giving it a colorful and chaotic appearance.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Mar 8

Gioia Tuaro container terminal - Italy 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/RTRx88ayq4sk... 4K link : i.imgur.com/Wn5iOBJ.jpeg

A satellite picture of a container terminal filled with many yellow and red containers and two very large ships being filled by cranes.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Feb 28

The Split - Caye Caulker - Belize 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/9iAKavQHvZXa... 4K link : i.imgur.com/3h3mUHG.jpeg

A satellite picture of a narrow turquoise channel separating two densely built islands, with reefs visible in the shallow water and small boats leaving white wake trails along the passage.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Feb 20

Algeria 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/RwDuhdiJDiCU... 4K link : i.imgur.com/m17b98s.jpeg

A satellite picture of a desertic landscape showing sweeping sand dunes with smooth curves, sharp ridges, and strong contrasts between sunlit slopes and deep shadows.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Feb 14

Oyster farm - Brittany - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/3z8dLZeV75vR... 4K link : i.imgur.com/eZoH1tX.jpeg

A satellite picture of an oyster farm showing parallel rows of submerged cultivation lines in shallow green‑blue water, with a small boat near the center leaving a curved wake as it moves through the site.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Feb 8

Iceland 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/uQG8EocPEidp... 4K link : i.imgur.com/GiywtfO.jpeg

A satellite picture of a long black‑sand beach with white waves breaking along the shoreline of a blue / green calm ocean.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jan 30

A satellite picture of a landscape split diagonally by a narrow linear structure, with dark green branching patterns on one side and bright turquoise texture on the other.

A satellite picture of a landscape with brightly colored sections—orange, green, and purple—arranged geometrically, with small structures and connecting lines.

A satellite picture of an industrial complex with red and white-roofed buildings, colored evaporation ponds, and a network of roads and pipelines.

A satellite picture of a large-scale area divided into rectangular plots with linear infrastructure and contrasting dark and light terrain features.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jan 30

Details from the Qarhan Playa - China 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/ay8tBn3vfSb8... 4K link : imgur.com/a/Fpzbwei The Qarhan Playa is heavily exploited for its valuable salt, mineral, and rare earth reserves. [Wikipedia : w.wiki/HedF ] 4 more pictures in the post below⬇️

A satellite picture of a landscape with swirling erosion patterns and varied coloration including purples, browns, tans, and oranges.

A satellite picture of a frosted salt surface with a vertical crack and mixed textures of smooth, rough patches, and scattered white spots.

A satellite picture of a colorful water caused by salts and bacteria, forming a multicolored terrain.

A satellite picture of green terrain with three vertical linear features and a dense network of winding lines.

Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷@loworbittourist· Jan 14

Greenland 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/XSRD7XFRusJG... 4K link : i.imgur.com/oUPTE0e.jpeg